This record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering. This artisan process results in cuts that have a superior high-frequency response (treble) and very solid, stable stereo imaging. In short, a very high-quality master that helps to create a very high-quality record.
A1: Tie Your Mother Down
A2: You Take My Breath Away
A3: Long Away
A4: The Millionaire Waltz
A5: You And I
B1: Somebody To Love
B2: White Man
B3: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
B4: Drowse
B5: Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
A Day At The Races is the fifth studio album by British rockers Queen and was first released in December 1976. It was the bands' first completely self-produced album, and the first not to feature producer Roy Thomas Baker. Recorded at Sarm East, The Manor and Wessex Studios in England, A Day At The Races was engineered by Mike Stone. The title of the album followed suit with its predecessor A Night at the Opera, taking its name from the subsequent film by the Marx Brothers. The album peaked at #1 in the UK, Japan and the Netherlands.
“The added ingredient in Day At The Races is this feeling of freedom that we actually had...”
- Brian May
Freddie's Somebody To Love, among the best-known Queen songs of all, was to become the biggest single of the album. It was also among its author's favourite own compositions, as Freddie would occasionally recall. Like Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody To Love features complex layered vocal tracks, though this time based on a gospel choir arrangement; a combination of Freddie, Brian and Roger's multi-tracked voices to achieve the impression of a 100-voice gospel choir. It is staggering to think that the colossal choirs on this recording could have been produced from just three voices, but that is the case. The various band members have stated many times over the years that it is pure good fortune and luck that the three voices merge so wonderfully together to provide such a distinctive part of the Queen sound.
Engineer – Mike Stone
Produced By, Composed By, Arranged By, Performed By – Queen
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Lacquer Cut By [Half-Speed Vinyl Mastering] – Miles Showell
Barcode: 602547202703
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold, 180 Gram
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Pop Rock
| Model Number | Q90714 |
|---|---|
| RRP | 149.00 |
